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Wednesday, June 05, 2013

June In The "Art Room"

All my traveling to/from North Carolina and Arizona is finished! I only have to set up shipping my stuff from North Carolina, but all all the work is done. Or it is until my things come from North Carolina and I have to put it up.In the meantime, I have turned my attention to the 'art room'. I still have some books and a couple of bags of fabric and patterns to add to the shelves, but this is what it looked like as we were unpacking and I was just setting things in the room.

So, with my return from North Carolina with some things in the car, I now have 2 sewing machines to use. Both are Singers and not all that fancy, but I have my machine and then a really basic Singer as a back up.

With the shelves fairly organized, I have selected some projects for June to try and complete. Actually, I have so many projects that I needed to narrow down what I was going to work on.I am starting the Marcelle Medallion Quilt from Liberty Love. This is what I pulled from my stash for the center medallion. If you haven't seen the finished quilt, it is a wonderful complex and bright design. I am pulling from my stash for the fabrics. I am not tuned into buying complete lines of fabric (yet) to use for a quilt. So right now I am pulling for what seems to fit from my current stash.

I am also participating in the Tula Pink 100 Modern Quilt Blocks QAL. My goal for June is to do 5 blocks a week or 20 for the month. And once again, I am pulling from my current stash for the blocks. What I did notice however when pulling for the blocks is that I don't have very many solids.I also have a BOM from Wish Upon a Quilt in Raleigh which I signed up for before I knew I was moving. They are kind enough to let me continue and are mailing me the blocks every month. I had gotten behind with the move and managed to 'catch up' the end of May. It will be a bright and colorful quilt when finished.

Those are a couple of the blocks.So for June my list of 'to-do's' is as follows:

Marcelle Medallion Quilt - finish center block

Blocks 1-20 of the Tula Pink blocks

finish up 'monkey hat' (knitted) for Lady K

BOM from Wish Upon a Quilt

blocks for block swap on Facebook

Of course, Texter has her agenda. I found a pattern for fabric blocks and she wants to work on those. I want do to them in flannel and blanket stitch the letters on the blocks. This will give me a handwork project. Also, I have a couple of quilts for her with a Batman theme we have the fabric for and the fabric for some 'animal' throws and a pillow. We will see if I get those fit in too.

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Retiring after 34 years in the airline industry, I found myself in Montana with my youngest daughter and a new grand daughter. Then came the oldest daughter and her partner, buying us a house for us all to live in. Then came the house fire and now we are rearranging our lives and planning a move back to North Carolina in 2018. So it will be 5 years of Zone 4 gardening before I get back to my Zone 7 comfort zone.